A Double Celebration for Midrash Echad

The following calendar coincides with the Hebrew Calendar

September 5th
  • Yom Teruah:  - Sundown 9/5/13 to Sundown 9/6/13 THURSDAY  Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashannah.  
  • Any saints who would like to get together this night we will be blowing shofars at 8 PM in order to be one with others around the world.  I saw this announcement via Facebook that a brother in 2001 started to site the moon on Yom Teruah and blow his shofar.  Now he posts a time for people all around the world to blow in unison.  We will meet September 4th.
http://www.thewatchmenfromisrael.org/newsblog/?page_id=1719#.UhDWCpLdNq9

This one will be outdoors at the Almansens.
September 14th
  • Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement Sundown 9/14/13 to  Sundown 9/16/13 SATURDAY           
  • We will celebrate together. I will see about getting the airport to have a bigger space.
September 20th
  • Sukkot starts at FRIDAY  sundown through September 20, sundown September 26 THURSDAY
  • The feast of Sukkot is a time to gather together outdoors in a sukkah, otherwise known as a booth.  For us this consists of some type of covering. It can be any temporary dwelling like a covered porch, a canopied area, some built area with a roof and three side, the side can be half walls.  
  • Please think about what day during that time you would like to host at your home.
Shabbat Aug 10, 2013
Midrash Echad met as a regular Shabbat and discussed how we should celebrate the Fall Feast Days as a harmonious group.

We emphasize harmonious because many disputes and divisions have resulted from the siting as of the moon, and the counting of the Aviv Barley.  This is important because these two "witnesses" set the entire year's calendar.

While most of the world follows the Hillel II calendar, we understand that its origin was made out of a desire to keep Jews in the Diaspora, those displaced from homeland Eretz Yisreal, in celebration at the same time around the world.  However, the calculated calendar has some flaws in that Rabbis introduce exceptions to the rules concerning Yom Kippur which arbitrarily move the dates in order to avoid observing Yom Kippur on a Shabbat or disturbing a Shababt.